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I want magic : essays on New Orleans, the South, and race
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"This collection brings together thirty-five essays published over the past ten years, mostly in local New Orleans outlets. Most are about New Orleans culture and the differing ways in which the ci...
"This collection brings together thirty-five essays published over the past ten years, mostly in local New Orleans outlets. Most are about New Orleans culture and the differing ways in which the city is perceived by locals, visitors, distant onlookers, media creators, and scholars. Particular attention is given to the subject of how New Orleans identity has been shaped in the years since Hurricane Katrina. Some of the essays are more broadly about the South or about American racial consciousness, but all have something to say about New Orleans in relation to the rest of the state, region, and country"--
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- Creator
- C.W. Cannon
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- English
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- Lafayette, LA : University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 2022
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- xxi, 201 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781946160867, 1946160865
- OCLC
- on1295617967
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Pretty Lively for a Dying City -- A Living Carnival Takes All Comers -- Is NOLA Hip and Is That Cool? -- Bobos Go Native : Gentrification and New Orleans Exceptionalism -- Music and Murder : A New Orleans Story -- White Fear -- Go-cups, Roosters, and NOLA Identity -- Faking Relevance at the French Market -- Why NOLA Hates Starbucks -- The Golden Age of Carnival Is Now -- An American Vegetable in Magical New Orleans -- Waving the Trashy Shirt : Class War in the French Quarter -- Frenchmen Street and the Nouvelle New Orleans -- New South Quackery : The Cultural Politics of Duck Dynasty -- American Horror in New Orleans -- I Miss My Schwegmann's-and I Got a Right to -- New Orleans as Subject and Object -- I Want Magic-A Defense of New Orleans Exceptionalism -- A Chic Makeover for a Shabby Economy -- South of the South? -- From Passé Blanc to Passé Noir -- Monumental Decision : Who Should Be Honored in Place of the Confederates? -- Adieu, Vieux Carré -- Beyoncé, New Orleans, and Afro-Creole Femininity -- A Slap-Down for Old Hickory -- Why Hipster Haters Are Worse than Hipsters -- Donald Trump, Andrew Jackson, and The Walking Dead -- Got the AirB'nB Blues? Get Hip to Creative Disruption! -- Carnival Racism-and Anti-Racism-for Dummies -- Confederates in the Dumpster -- Restless Supernatives : New Orleans and the Anxiety of Authenticity -- A Death in Bohemia-Starbucks Comes to Faubourg Marigny -- Wine from Sour Grapes in Whodat Nation -- Hollywood Jazz and the Storyville Complex